Quotes About Knowledge

No puede tenerse una vida plena en mente sin libros y tiempo para estudiarlos, sin oportunidad para viajar y observar o sin compañerismo intelectual.

And the heart that abandons itself to the Supreme Mind finds itself related to all its works and will travel a royal road to particular knowledge and powers.

Some people remain in poverty because they are ignorant of the fact that there is wealth for them; and these can best be taught by showing them the way to affluence in your own person and practice.

Man is a thinking substance, a portion of the Cosmic Substance; but man is limited, while God has no limits. We are immersed in mind and that mind contains all knowledge and all truth. It is seeking to give us this knowledge, for God delights to give good gifts to his children.

A person cannot live fully in mind without books and time to study them, without opportunity for travel and observation, or without intellectual companionship. To live fully in mind, one must have intellectual recreations and must be surrounded by all objects of art and beauty one is capable of using and appreciating.

He was seeking power and the use of power through knowledge of sin, of intoxication, of poetry

Well, there's so much to read, and I'm so far behind.

Anyone who reads, even one from the remote Southwest at the far end of an attenuated tradition, is to some extent a citizen of the world, and I had been a hungry reader all my life.

you must have brought something. Books? I never saw you without a green bag of books.

Anyone pretending to be a guide through wild and fabulous territory should know the territory. I wish I knew it better than I do. I am not Jed Smith. But Jed smith is not available these days as a guide, and I am. I accept the duty, at least as much for what I may learn as for what I may be able to tell others.

The only life we know well, the one on which we are the ultimate authority, is our own. The only experience to which we can bear witness is that which we have personally endured and observed.

intellectual hare

This time she was writing the guidebook herself, as she went, and its authority could not be challenged or repudiated.

After all, we had been programmed in the same system, stuffed like Strasbourg geese with the best that has been known and said in the world during man's long struggle upward from spontaneity to cliché.

Knowledge extends in promontories and bays; or to put it vertically rather than horizontally, the strata from remote to recent never lie so unbroken that we cannot find some line of unconformity where the imagination must make a leap. There are so many horizons, geological and human, where the evidence is missing or incomplete.

Verifiable knowledge makes its way slowly, and only under cultivation, but fable has burrs and feet and claws and wings and an indestructible sheath like weed-seed, and can be carried almost anywhere and take root without benefit of soil or water.

An acquaintance with books and learning was not a thing that a frontier boy like John Wesley Powell could take for granted; he had to seize it as he could. Abe Lincoln said it for every such boy with brains and dreams in his head: "The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is a man who'll git me a book I ain't read.

And one trembles to be so understood and, at last,To understand, as if to know becameThe fatality of seeing things too well.

They will get it straight one day at the Sorbonne.

I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.

Where was it one first heard of the truth? The the.

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.

The root of all evil is ignorance (avijj?) and false views (micch?di??hi). It is an undeniable fact that as long as there is doubt, perplexity, wavering, no progress is possible.